the first "From" is part of the unix mailbox standard
If you actually go through the message, it does contain both the
delimiting From and From:
Jason
On 30 May 2002 at 19:44, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:44:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tamas TEVESZ <ice@???>
To: maillist <mailtolist@???>
Copies to: exim list <exim-users@???>
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Maildir RFC 2822 compliant ?
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, maillist wrote:
>
> > no, section 15.3 doesn't say anything about the problem I am facing.
>
> to quote that ms kb article:
>
> "
> Some SMTP servers do not implement RFC 2822 completely and create
> message headers that are not compliant with the RFC specifications.
> Exchange 2000 Server treats the incorrectly configured header as part
> of the message body and does not recognize the header field with the
> missing colon as a valid header. Because of this, Exchange 2000
> assumes that the body of the message has started and includes the
> complete header along with the message body. Because the MIME header
> is not parsed, e-mail message attachments are displayed as encoded
> text in the message body and are not automatically decoded.
> "
>
> and then it refers to rfc2822
>
> but it's the *POP CONNECTOR* that barfs up. and the pop rfc quite
> clearly states that *everything up until the first empty line are the
> headers*.
>
> microsoft is misleading here. as usual, i'd say, and this doesn't make
> pop connector one bit more usable. it's quite stange that everything,
> and i mean everything besides popconnector handles the case as it
> should be handled. "beware on road six, a guys is driving against
> the traffic" "one? they are all doing that!"...
>
> besides, whoever made headers like "Content-transfer-encoding: 7-bit"
> shall shut the fsck up about referring to rfcs, imho. (thats some ms
> passport mailer thing, btw.).
>
>
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Jason Robertson
Now at the Nation Research Council.
